Landon Dupont tops Craig Button's 2027 NHL Draft ranking
Michigan defenceman Landon Dupont leads TSN analyst Craig Button's top 32 for the 2027 NHL Draft, with Russians Nazar Privalov and Sergei Skvortsov second and third.
Landon Dupont, a defenceman at the University of Michigan, tops Craig Button's ranking for the 2027 NHL Draft. Button, TSN's draft analyst, published a list of 32 players.
Two Russians follow him. CSKA forward Nazar Privalov is second and Torpedo forward Sergei Skvortsov third.
The rest of the top 10: Carter Meyer (Quebec), Demian Zhilkin (Saginaw), Brock England (Seattle Thunderbirds), defenceman Brock Cripps (Prince Albert), Jonas Neuenschwander (Biel), Sammy Nelson (Notre Dame) and Alexis Joseph (Saint John).
Two more Russians appear further down. Yevgeny Yakunin of MHK Spartak is 11th and Andrei Pustovoy of Loko is 17th.
If Button's order holds, Russian forwards would take two of the first three picks. That is a reading of one analyst's list, and rankings of this kind tend to move through the season.
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